What Drives Clinician Satisfaction with EMRs

Taylor Davis, VP of Innovation, KLAS. We built EMRs to help clinicians deliver dramatically better care and to be more efficient in that care. If clinicians everywhere consistently praised EMRs for revolutionizing the practice of medicine, wouldn't that be an indication that the EMR was a success? But that is not happening. KLAS shares research […]

SI 2018 CMIO Roundtable

The Scottsdale Institute 2018 Chief Medical Information Officers Roundtable sponsored by Hearst Health during SI’s 2018 Annual Conference gathered 13 CMIO thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country in Scottsdale in April. They reviewed what IT improvements have truly moved the needle on health outcomes the past 10 years, what lessons they will apply to […]

SI 2018 CIO Roundtable

The Scottsdale Institute 2018 Chief Information Officer Roundtable sponsored by Impact Advisors during SI’s 2018 Annual Conference gathered 22 CIO thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country in Scottsdale on April 25, 2018. We asked them to share their CEOs’ top priorities for the coming year and how those priorities translate to the CIO’s priorities […]

SI 2018 Annual Conference – 25th Anniversary

"Breaking the Payment Barrier: From Innovation to Transformation of Healthcare" Conference Speakers John Bardis Eric Brown, PhD Joan Budden Don Calcagno Amy Compton-Phillips Michelle Conger Jeff Cook Denis Cortese, MD Darren Dworkin Joe Fifer John Glaser, PhD Janet Guptill, FACHE Rod Hochman, MD Tommy Inzina, CPA, MBA, FHFMA Mark Laney, MD Mitch Morris, MD Robert […]

SI 2018 CNIO Summit

"Managing Change and Optimizing Clinical Innovation" The Scottsdale Institute 2018 Chief Nursing Informatics Officers Spring Summit, sponsored by Wolters Kluwer during SI's 2018 Annual Conference, gathered eight CNIO thought leaders from prominent healthcare systems across the country in Scottsdale April 27-28. They shared their thoughts about the CNIO's changing role, mentorship, proliferation of EMRs & […]

Blockchain Technology at Saint Lukes Health Network, Part II

Chad Brisendine Rob Faix Chad Brisendine, VP/CIO, St. Luke's University Health Network, and Rob Faix, VP Technology Services, Impact Advisors, LLC, share their latest thoughts and experiences as St. Luke’s continues to explore the practical uses of blockchain technology in the healthcare industry. Use cases, challenges, next steps, blockchain vendors generating buzz in the industry, […]

Clinical and Financial Benefits of Tele-ICU at Advocate

Michael Ries Cindy Welsh Michael Ries MD, MBA, FCCM, FCCP, FACP, Medical Director, Adult Critical Care and eICU, and Cindy Welsh, RN, MBA, VP, Adult Critical Care & Medical Prof. Affairs, Advocate Health Care. If used properly, tele-ICU can enable a healthcare organization to garner significant clinical and financial benefits. Dr. Ries and Cindy discuss […]

AI in Action at Partners HealthCare

Keith Dreyer William Boonn Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, FSIIM, Chief Data Science Officer, Partners Healthcare, and William Boonn, MD, CMIO Healthcare Diagnostics, Nuance. The impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on healthcare comes from a new and expanded use of AI-powered solutions. With AI, hospital groups can augment clinical expertise with deep-learning algorithms trained to […]

Virtual Health: Creating an Enterprise Program for the Future

Urvi Shah, Manager, Minakshi Krishnan, Senior Manager, Tim Smith, Principal, and Ken Abrams, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Virtual Health is becoming an expectation for customers and providers alike, and a means for health care organizations to differentiate themselves. Urvi, Minakshi, Tim and Ken explore the imperative of Virtual Health and discuss benefits they’ve seen […]

Universal EMR Consent Form at Northwestern

Thomas Moran Tom Moran, MD, Vice President & Chief Medical Information Executive, and Laurel Fleming, JD, Director, Corporate Compliance & Integrity and Chief Privacy Executive, Northwestern Medicine. In this era of value-based care, information exchange and data analytics, the ability to use and share patient care information is critical. Healthcare providers, however, continue to face […]

Building a Healthcare Data Science Strategy at UVA Health

Glenn Wasson Jonathan Michel Glenn Wasson, Administrator of Analytics, and Jonathan Michel, Director of Data Science, University of Virginia Health System. Data science can provide fundamental insights and efficiency gains that healthcare providers must leverage. Doing this requires not only strategic alignment of data science with overall health system strategy, but also workflow alignment with […]

Current Trends and New Tactics for Better Patient Engagement

Colin Buckley Colin Buckley, Senior Analyst, KLAS.  The need for patient engagement is as old as medicine, but the use of information technology to engage patients is in its adolescence. Today, broad visions and experimentation exist, but there is a lack of consensus regarding end goals, and pathways are unclear.  Colin discusses the most recent […]

Using Predictive Analytics to Reduce Heart Failure Hospitalizations at Advocate Aurora

Tina Esposito Tim Arnold Tina Esposito, Vice President of Information and Technology Innovation, and Tim Arnold, Manager, Advocate Center Collaborative, Advocate Aurora Health Care.  One of the major challenges for an ACO is identifying the right patients for an intervention. Advocate Healthcare leveraged its extensive data platform to create predictive models that identify patients who […]

The Data Driven Decision-Making Journey to Improve Quality of Care at BayCare

Greg Hindahl, MD Apparsamy Balaji Greg Hindahl, MD, CMIO and Apparsamy Balaji, Director, Enterprise Data Management & Web Applications, BayCare Health System. BayCare’s Business Intelligence Center facilitates the integration of disparate data sources from across the organization to be analyzed in near real-time for data discovery, performance tracking and advanced analysis. These decisions and insights […]

Using a Consumer-centric, Digital First Strategy to Grow and Achieve ROI at Centura

Kevin Guill Becca Lococo Kevin Guill, Director of Digital Marketing, Centura Health, and Becca Lococo, PhD, VP Optum Advisory Services. Spurred on by the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care in the Colorado marketplace, Centura Health chose to deploy digital patient engagement tools in a way that would provide valuable feedback from their consumers and […]

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